Between-Quarters Seminars, November & December, 2017

Between-Quarters Seminars
November & December, 2017

Reservations are required. See our Calendar of Events and Contact Us pages for information about registration status and how to register.


Trails and Rails at TELOS
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Experience being on a long-distance Amtrak train with commentary provided by National Park Service guides!

Daily, between mid-April and mid-September each year, National Park Service guides travel on the Coast Starlight (leaving Seattle for Portland, OR) and the Empire Builder (leaving Seattle for Chicago) trains, providing commentaries and information about the countryside, history, geography, animals, flora and fauna, etc., to passengers from across the USA and around the world.

The service is a partnership between Amtrak and the National Park Service, provided free to passengers as part of a national program called ‘Trails and Rails’.

At this seminar, a team of experienced National Park Service guides invite you to join them.  Sit back and relax as they guide you through a series of national parks and outstanding countryside, weaving stories and information into views from Puget Sound to Portland and Seattle to the Montana Hi-line.


TELOS Readers Theater Performance
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The TELOS Readers Theater class has been working on the play Spoon River Anthology, based on poems by Edgar Lee Masters. Originally published in 1915, the poems are really dramatic monologues in which the deceased residents of a tiny Illinois town – finally free of worldly concerns and the customs of polite society – reveal the thoughts, yearnings, and secrets they could never acknowledge while they were alive. There are plenty of surprises along the way: illicit affairs, dashed hopes, petty grievances, and brilliant insights into the nature of the human soul.

Adapted for Broadway in 1963, the stage version has been performed around the world ever since; just this summer, a Toronto theater company brought a fresh new production to New York and got rave reviews. In true readers theater style, the TELOS group will present an informal, script-in-hand performance – no costumes or scenery, allowing the actors to focus on the words and emotions of this rich parade of characters.

The performance will last about 45 minutes. Come hear and support your fellow TELOSians!


How Can You Defend Those People?
Thursday, November 30, 2017

The talk will focus on the fundamentals of due process, going through a typical criminal prosecution and discussing the due process rights that attach at each stage: apprehension, investigation, arrest, trial, sentencing and appeal, with a peek (if there is time) at the seminal cases that have given their name to these rights.

Attendees will receive a pocket U.S. Constitution, and hopefully will acquire an understanding of the source as well as the nature of our rights as citizens and an appreciation of the vital role played by defense counsel in protecting those fundamental rights for everyone.

Speaker:
Jordan McCabe turned 50 while attending Gonzaga law school on a prestigious full-tuition scholarship. While a student, she interned at the Court of Appeals in Spokane, and upon graduation was invited to join the chambers of Judge Dennis Sweeney as a law clerk. After almost 10 years, she relocated to the west side and served as an assistant public defender for the Bellingham municipal court, before winning a Washington Office of Public Defense contract to represent indigent criminal defendants on appeal. She did this for several years until retiring a few years ago.


What It Means to be Human:
What We Know about Our Ancient Predecessors

Monday, December 4, 2017

Deep caves, adorned with representations of long extinct animals and strewn with the ashy remains of ancient hearths and stone tools, are portals to knowledge of our selves.

This Humanities Washington website page has information describing this talk by LLyn De Danaan.


Sculptures of George Tsutakawa
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Come be inspired by this tribute to the life and work of George Tsutakawa, by Shane Liston.

George Tsutakawa was a Japanese American artist. He was born in Seattle in 1910. He grew up in Seattle and in Fukuyama, Japan. He attended the University of Washington. He was in the United States Army during WWII even as some of his family members were interned in camps on the west coast. After the war, he returned to Seattle, married and finished his education at the University of Washington, where he began teaching in the Art Department.

George was initially a painter who came to know and work with well-known artists in the greater Seattle area. He gradually moved more to sculpture, though he never stopped painting. He found his niche when he began to work on sculptural fountains. He became one of the most famous and prolific fountain creators in the US and the world. He continued to teach and create until the mid-1990s. He died in 1997.

About the Speaker:

Shane Liston’s mother’s parents were both artists and writers. His grandfather was also a commercial artist and a composer. They were his strongest influences.

Shane has a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from University of Washington, an MA in Education from Argosy University, and has also studied at the Art Institute of Seattle. He has taught graphic design and illustration related courses, as well as Art History, History of Graphic Design, Advertising Theory, Marketing Theory, Package Design and other courses at The Art Institute of Seattle, for 27 years, where he has also been curator of the gallery.

Shane Liston is going to be a TELOS instructor in Winter 2018! Our website has more information on the Instructors and Winter 2018 Courses pages.


Historic Preservation in King County
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Come hear Jennifer Meisner share a sampling of King County’s wide range of landmark-designated properties and their fascinating histories. She will share recent challenges and success stories and highlight special projects, programs, and partnerships that help owners preserve and restore their historic properties, agencies identify and protect archaeological resources, cities revitalize their historic downtown commercial districts, and everyone celebrate the good, important work being done every day to protect places that matter in King County.

Jennifer will present an overview of King County’s regional historic preservation program, which provides landmark protection and archaeological services to the county’s unincorporated areas and over half of its suburban cities. The presentation will cover how the county works to protect historic and cultural resources through the many services it offers to owners of historic properties, county and other governmental agencies, and the public.

About the Speaker:

Jennifer Meisner is King County’s Historic Preservation Officer, a position to which she brings over 20 years of experience working to protect historic and cultural resources and promote neighborhood revitalization.

She is also devoted to cultivating the next generation of preservationists and delights in teaching graduate courses in preservation planning as an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the UW College of Built Environments, where she earned a Master of Architecture and Certificate in Preservation Planning and Design.

Jennifer is the former Executive Director of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and a former community development specialist with the City of Seattle’s Historic Preservation Program. She serves on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Board of Advisors and as an ex-officio member of 4Culture’s Board of Directors. Jennifer was honored with the Washington State Historic Preservation Officer’s Award for Career Achievement in 2014.


The Good Game:
On the Moral Value of Sports

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Go deeper than the latest stats. Explore the philosophical implications of sports, what they say about our culture, and the ways in which they can reveal our full humanity.

This Humanities Washington website page has information describing this talk by Mike VanQuickenborne.


Stories from Your Life
2 Thursdays, December 14 & 21, 2017
(2-part sequence. Attend both.)

In the early 1990s, memoirs written by ordinary persons experienced a sudden upsurge as an increasing number of people realized that their ancestors’ and their own stories were about to disappear. Memoirs written as a way to pass down a personal legacy have emerged as a personal and family responsibility.

This program concentrates on the development of short, single-topic memoirs. These can become a more lengthy memoir, one dealing with a whole life.

The first session will examine ways to identify and start converting memories to a short story about an event in your life. A variety of tools to help you move forward are provided.

The second session will give you the opportunity to get feedback on your progress to date. Writing tips will be covered.

About the Speaker:

Henry F Bohne has written in over thirty published technical articles. He has written over 250,000 words (about 500 pages) for organization newsletters. As a contributing author, his work appears in three text books, and four short stories appear in The White Hats of the Navy.

Henry has been writing, starting out slow, but has accumulated enough words to fill a very thick novel. Through the years he has written over sixty ‘essays’. These are short stories; some are creative non-fiction and some a mix of fiction and his life experiences. He is currently about 80% of his way through his life memoir.

By-laws, operating procedures and more for community organizations are other subject areas. Various seminars and presentations are available to community organizations such KCLS Library, LDS Church and veterans’ organizations.


A Hundred Year Old “Maiden Finland”:
A century of independence of a land far, far away

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Had you been born in one of the poorest agrarian lands in Europe some hundred years ago, you would have laughed at the idea that this rugged hinterland of dour people would become one of the most prosperous, stable, egalitarian, and even happy countries in the world.

But that’s exactly what happened in a course of a hundred years in Finland. In 100 years the Finns have turned around a country of no consequence into one of the most respected and innovative societies in the world.

Honorary Consul of Finland to Washington State, Kristiina Hiukka, will share some of the highlights of that hundred year long path of Finland’s transformation.

Since the Finns like to call their country Maiden Finland, Kristiina will highlight how the Finnish story is also an important story from a woman’s point of view.

About the Speaker:

Kristiina Hiukka transforms lives of executives, performance of teams and cultures of organizations as a coach and a consultant with a lifetime of international experience. Kristiina’s consulting, coaching, facilitating and speaking engagements are a mix of her passions for Leadership, the Human Element in Innovation, Collaboration and Gender Intelligence in the context of Organizational Culture – and how these affect strategic decisions. She believes that the best innovation leadership is based on diversity of thought, and a balanced mix of positivity and productivity.

Kristiina has founded and led two innovation summits (Women in Innovation Summit 2012 and Converge@Seattle Pacific Northwest Innovation Summit 2014) that convened business leaders, legislators, innovators, entrepreneurs and experts to explore opportunities to transform the ways we live and work.

A native of Finland, Kristiina has lived in Seattle for over 23 years, and serves as Honorary Vice Consul of Finland for the State of Washington. Kristiina earned her M.A. from University of Jyväskylä, Finland.


Reservations are required. See our Calendar of Events and Contact Us pages for information about registration status and how to register.

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